The Slave Power: Its Character, Career, and Probable Designs: Being an Attempt to Explain the Real Issues Involved in the American ContestCarleton, 1862 - 171 páginas |
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... nation should separate from the other because a first magistrate had been elected in the ordinary constitutional course . The agitation for secession was therefore pronounced to be a political feint intended to cover a real movement in ...
... nation should separate from the other because a first magistrate had been elected in the ordinary constitutional course . The agitation for secession was therefore pronounced to be a political feint intended to cover a real movement in ...
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... nations to decide on their own form of political exist- ence as identified with the cause of the South . " The watch- word of the South , " said the Times , * " is Independence , of the North Union , and in these two war - cries the ...
... nations to decide on their own form of political exist- ence as identified with the cause of the South . " The watch- word of the South , " said the Times , * " is Independence , of the North Union , and in these two war - cries the ...
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... Nation- ale : -- " Il faut aimer à discuter contre l'evidence pour se persuader que la question de l'esclavage n'est point la cause principale de la crise actuelle . Dans ce conflit qui depuis trente ans va toujours en s'aggravant et ...
... Nation- ale : -- " Il faut aimer à discuter contre l'evidence pour se persuader que la question de l'esclavage n'est point la cause principale de la crise actuelle . Dans ce conflit qui depuis trente ans va toujours en s'aggravant et ...
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... nations : still even this right must justify itself by reference to the ends for which it is employed . The demand ... nation — if national independence be sought solely and exclu- sively as a means of carrying out designs which are ...
... nations : still even this right must justify itself by reference to the ends for which it is employed . The demand ... nation — if national independence be sought solely and exclu- sively as a means of carrying out designs which are ...
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... nations . In the following pages an attempt will be made to resolve this system into its component elements , to trace the connexion of the several parts with each other , and of the whole with the foundation on which it rests , and to ...
... nations . In the following pages an attempt will be made to resolve this system into its component elements , to trace the connexion of the several parts with each other , and of the whole with the foundation on which it rests , and to ...
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African slave trade aggressive agriculture American annexation anti-slavery become capital career carried cause character circumstances civilization colonization condition Confederacy confined Congress connexion consequences considerable Constitution contest cotton crops cultivation d'esclaves democratic districts Dred Scott economic effect emancipation employed established états exist fact favour Federal fertile force free labour freedom Fugitive Slave Law increase independence industry influence institutions interests Kansas Kentucky l'esclavage land less Louisiana means ment Mexico Missouri Compromise mode moral Morrill tariff nations nature necessity negro North America Northern object Olmsted Olmsted's once peasant peculiar persons planters political portion position present principle productive profitable proprietors purpose question race regarded result says secession Senate slave labour Slave party slave population Slave Power slave societies slaveholders social soil South Southern Southern party success tariff tariff of 1832 territory Texas tion tobacco ultimate extinction Union United Virginia wealth whole
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Página ix - ... and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Página 95 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Página x - An Act to Suppress Insurrection, to Punish Treason and Rebellion, to Seize and Confiscate Property of Rebels, and for Other Purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: Sec.
Página 90 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition.
Página x - All officers or persons in the military or naval service of the United States are prohibited from employing any of the forces under their respective commands for the purpose of returning fugitives from service or labor, who may have escaped from any...
Página ix - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Página 131 - Thus he lived, and thus he died like a saint, unspotted of the world, full of alms-deeds, full of humility, and all the examples of a virtuous life ; which I cannot conclude better, than with this borrowed observation : - All must to their cold graves ; But the religious actions of the just Smell sweet in death, and blossom in the dust.
Página x - ... approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following : — SECTION 9. And be it further enacted, That all slaves of persons who shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion against the Government of the United States, or who shall in any way give aid or comfort thereto, escaping from such persons, and taking refuge within the lines of the army, and all slaves captured from such persons, or deserted by them, and coming under the control of the government of the United States,...
Página x - And I do hereby enjoin upon and order all persons engaged in the military and naval service of the United States to observe, obey, and enforce, within their respective spheres of service, the act and sections above recited. And the Executive will in due time recommend that all citizens of the United States who shall have remained...
Página ix - That it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress, to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tendering pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or rejection of all...